14 Sep 2021

Covid-19 vaccination bus to hit the streets in Aotearoa

From Checkpoint, 6:14 pm on 14 September 2021

In recent months Checkpoint has asked various government ministers if a mobile 'Mr Whippy'-style ice cream van could be the answer to getting more people vaccinated.

On Tuesday it became a reality, with the Prime Minister announcing mobile vaccination buses would be launched from this Thursday to deliver jabs to people at home who have not been able to get to a vaccination centre.

Jacinda Ardern said the buses would look a bit like Jabba the Bus - a mobile vaccination bus launched in regional Victoria last week.

Dr Helen Roberts from Goulbourn Valley Health has launched the bus. She talks to Lisa Owen.